In the last two chapters, you have seen the first two parts of the Virtual Machines management with Oracle VM Manager. Here we shall perform some typical VM resource management tasks, such as importing VMs via several methods such as templates, VM Images, ISO files, and so on. We will also look briefly at creating shared storage.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
Managing intracloud resources and VM allocation
Importing and managing VM templates
Importing, converting and managing VM from other VM images
Importing and managing VMs from ISO files
Managing shared storage
Resources within the Oracle VM environment include VM templates, VM images, ISO files, Virtual Disks, and converted VMs. Here, disk libraries could be of several formats and all you will need is to convert the disk images into Oracle formats. These could be disks from VMware *.vmdk
format or other formats...